iambus
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Example: Has a spreading habit in the garden. The tuber is soft and easy to boil
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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ianɨr
kasesir
konapwit
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Example: If a person comes to your garden and tries to spoil it with a special leaf by rubbing it on his foot and walking around or rubbbing it on a stick and tossing it into a garden, take 8 branches of this species (MB 5045) and put 2 in each corner of a new garden. If branches are placed when the garden is planted, it will not be spoiled by this black magic. To stop having children chew 4 pieces of young stem 2 in. long. 2 times daily for one week and the woman will no longer have children.
Scientific name: Desmodium incanum, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konianaker
kuayei
kwanarai
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[kwanəraj]
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Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.
Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kwanarai
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Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.
Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwankumah
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[kwan kuman]
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Example: A person would never use a food knife when cutting this tree as it will make that person hungry, which is also the name of the tree. So people do not like to cut this tree.
Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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makhum
marao
minim
murup
nahpao
naik
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[nejɨk]
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Example: If a tree is dying from fungal infection, this plant should be planted near one’s garden, near crops or that tree to help protect crops from that disease.
Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nakus nani kiri
namari ~ nɨmɨri
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[na̤məri]
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Example: The wood of this tree is hard and people use it to make a bow. Cut the stem, heat it over a fire to make it stronger and then carve it to the size desired.
Scientific name: Acacia spirorbis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nare-apurumɨn
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Example: When performing the kastom ceremony "toka dance" the leaves are wrapped in a band and tied on the head of dancers.
Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nasuaiou
nefara
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Example: The leaves are woven to make mats, hats, baskets, fans. When pollen is released from the flower it is said that fish in the sea are healthy. The roots are used for tying things, pound pieces of root and strip them off and weave into rope. A person can cut a root in a way that makes a brush to paint grass skirts and other objects. This rope can also be used to tie various leaves that are used to cover lap-lap. The leaves can be harvested, the fiber removed and woven into rope.
Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nemrapoep
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Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes it’s nest with the leaves.
Scientific name: Weinmannia denhamii, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nipina
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Example: When young boys are circumcized, the leaf is mashed and rubbed on the skin of the boys who are sleeping in the nakamal--and mix with coconut oil to help hold it on the body. Said to help the person have better, smoother skin.
Scientific name: Murraya, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nkhaourakou
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[nəkora:ku]
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Example: When a person is growing watermelons, you put a knife in the roots of the watermelon plants, and then cut a stick from this tree and drive it into the roots as well, to ensure greater numbers of watermelons will be grown.
Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nukuk
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Example: To treat burns, take 8 tips of this fern, chew it and put on as a poutltice on burn itself, leaving it for 2 days. This will dry the sore faster and heal it faster.
Scientific name: Pyrrosia lanceolata, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nukweri pran
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Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes its bed with the fronds of this fern.
Scientific name: Austroblechnum melanoaulon, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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numasur
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Example: The wood from this tree makes a very good timber. Hunters know that the flying fox and pigeons like to eat the ripe fruits from this tree, so hunt near them when it is ripe.
Scientific name: Elaeocarpus angustifolius, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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numben
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Example: The leaf of this plant is added to soup in which meat is being cooked, for example, turtle meat, which has a strong smell. If this leaf is placed in the pot, it will make the soup smell better
Scientific name: Ocimum sanctum, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nurabup
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Example: When this tree grows with straight stems it is used for house posts
Scientific name: Weinmannia denhami, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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penesu
pepher pitew sarariman
rerinitakuang
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Example: Used to wipe yam for good luck when planting. Take leaves and wipe the yam tuber. Once this tuber is planted, it will grow better due to the luck blessing.
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tafha
taopir-taopir
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Example: Children shoot the small hard seeds through a bamboo tube at lizards and butterflies, as a sort of game.
Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tuwai
yerman sei kijirimak sa namritaik
yesu